'Gender of the Millenium': A series of special events

The Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies, The Women and Public Policy Program, and Radcliffe College Present "Gender at the Millennium," a fall series of special events. All events are free and open to the public.

Kicking off with this week's talk by author Alice Walker (see coverage on page XX), the schedule of events is as follows:

Thursday, Oct. 22 -- 7:30 p.m. Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall

"History's Ends: Historicizing the Millennium"

Katharine Park, Harvard University

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School

Deborah Valenze, Barnard College

Thursday, Oct. 29 -- 7:30 p.m. Thompson Room, Barker Center

"Consuming the Planet: Gender, Capitalism, and the Environment"

H. Patricia Hynes, Boston University

Ann Pellegrini, Harvard University

Juliet Schor, Harvard University

Thursday, Nov. 5 -- 7:30 p.m. Thompson Room, Barker Center

"The Next Wave: The Case for a Progressive Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Social Movement"

Urvashi Vaid, Director, Policy Institute --The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and author of Virtual Equality

Thursday, Nov. 12 -- 7:30 p.m. Thompson Room, Barker Center

"Politics, Policy, and the Public Square"

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Thursday, Nov. 19 -- 7:30 p.m. Thompson Room, Barker Center

"New Fundamentalisms, New Nationalisms"

Janet R. Jakobsen, University of Arizona

Afsaneh Najmabadi, Barnard College

Geeta Patel, Wellesley College

Moderated by Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School

Additional funding has been provided by tThe Harvard College Women's Initiative, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Seminar (CLCS),

Open Gate: A Fund for Gay and Lesbian Life at Harvard,

Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory Seminar (CLCS), and

the Ph.D./Th.D. Program in Religion, Gender and Culture at Harvard Divinity School.

For more information, contact the Women's Studies Office at 495-9199.